Cast Offs episode 3

[sammason]

I found episode 3 of Cast Offs difficult to watch because it's almost entirely negative. It's really a portrait of how disability can wreck lives. As we've been discussing here recently, is this something we want in portrayals of disability?

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[cat63]

It's really a portrait of how disability can wreck lives. As we've been discussing here recently, is this something we want in portrayals of disability?

It certainly doesn't need to be the only way that disability is portrayed, but it seems to me that if it's a truthful picture of how some people do respond to disability then it's a valid thing to depict, provided it's balanced by other, equally valid, portrayals.

Will sounds like an extreme case, but then I suppose for TV drama they often tend to paint in broad strokes to get the point across.

[sammason]

Yes that's how I saw it too. I didn't like Will but I did feel as though I understood him.

[cat63]

I didn't like Will but I did feel as though I understood him.

That sounds as if the programme did a decent job then.

[sammason]

Yes it did.